St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-04
the world the best daughters, wives, mothers
this world eyer saw. And we say in the first
place that if you be to your children

tue WOrlu tne D6St daugnterS, wives, nOtnerS
this world eyer saw. And we say in the first
place that ii you be To your children
WHAT YOU OUGHT TO BE
and to your home what you ought to be there
is one question to be settled to begin with.
Above all creatures on this earth the greatest
moral monstrosity l ever saw is u woman
with innocent children playing around her
lap, their arms around her neck and that
mother giddy, Goddess, Christless mother.
l Can see how men can be weak and led into
sin as they go out and fight the battles of life,
but home with its hallowed inhuence-oh,
mother, how can 1t be that you can sit be-
fore your children, move a. ound, consciouS
that your children are taking your life and
your example as an example to follow, and
yet give yourself up to pleasure
Christlessness and the world. ! do not be-
lieve that any woman can ever give her chill
dren to God until she first gives herself, and
tie mother who has unreservedly uncondi-
tonally and eternally gwen herself to God,
that is the mother that can take her children
IN her arms and put them down on Gods al
tar, and the altar sanctheS the gift and there
Is whole family marching in the footsteps of
mother to the kingdom of God. If Il mother is
what she ought 10 be and should be, TO be u
mother at ALL she is n good Christian woman
giving forth a pure life and example; never
doing anything that her children may not do
ana be elevated by the act i'll which they i'm
itate their mother. Every act OF her life
should be maxim for universal application
A boy never loses sight OF the fact OF the way
mother talked and died; that mothers life
was this and that, and when mothers life Is
in harmony with Christ there is an aroma
and fragrance that fingers with her children
after she has been dead and gone for years
And as mother looks down upon this audience
to-day-may be your mother died not ten
blocks from where we sit this moments
mother looking
DOWN FROM ABOVE
and seeing her children putting their tracks
IN mothers tracks; II so, soon they will join
the innumerable company up yonder.
wish had an hours time to talk specially to
mothers: but, Mothers | sum il up in few
words, first, whatever you want your chill
dren TO be, be yourself. If you want your
children to be truthful, never while earth
stands let your children catch you in false
hood. If you want them to be good, be good
yourself and pray God to help make your
children good. If you want your children
sober, live sober yourself, for / 40
believe there are mothers in this
actual contact from hand to hand the intoxi-
eating drink, the vine, the champagne to
their children; but believe many mothers
have loved wine themselves and many have
inherited the taste because mothers loved
alcoholic drinks. Look how men, how fathers
are debauchng themselves in liquor. In my
OM II otolC, tuS piCSluSul Vi 1t prominent COL
lege was intrusted with Il drunken boy of a
very rich man. The president finally wrote
to the father and said: Your boy is so de-
bauched do not know what to do with him., -
and the father wrote back an impatient letter
and said, put the thumb screws
on him-do anything; the pres
ident of the college wrote back: sMy
brother, answer some questions: Were you q
drunkard before the birth of this boy? Was
your father Il drunkard or the boys grand
father on his mothers side? Answer these
questions and will know how to &C 10 work
with the boy" That father wrote back and
said: "Before the birth of that boy L was an
Incorporate man. and my father and my
wifes father also," and the truth of it was
that boy was three-fourths orunkard before
the day he was born into the world. The
only hope l see at all for our boys in the
future, thank God. is in the fact that q large
majority OF our mothers are
SOBER WOMEN,
and they will die before they will touch, or
taste, or handle The cup that has blighted 30
many lives. The hope of America is in the
fact that our mothers keep sober and will no
touch the draught that has ruined so many
souls. Mothers, mothers, be what you ought
TO be in your examples; never offer anything
to your children that may blacken their lives
after you are dead and gone / know BOYS
to-day who are breaking mothers and fathers
hearts, and that mother had champagne
In her closet; had liquors in her wine
room, and she fed them out to
her chiren from their infancy I'D.
i say to you that this bar-room can be, no
worse in its far-reaching, cursing inhuence
than home where liquors of any sort are
passed round among the children of that
home. give you these two little pictures,
and want you to take them home with YOU
They are home pictures. Take them with you
and let one hang in your family room the rest
I.at-c
mother sitting down quietly in her home
Here is little Annie just 6 years old. She
walks in and says, Mamma. please give me
some thread for my needle I" Il shant do il;
you have wasted more thread than you ought
to; don't trouble rue any more to-day; you are
more trouble than child ought to be-get
your bonnet and go and play, and do not
trouble your mother" The next day she
comes back to mamma and says: s'Please,
mamma, please give me some scraps for dolls
dress?'' There you are again, you little
vixen you; and you have wasted more scraps
on that doll than you and the doll are worth ;
get your bonnet and go over to Mrs. Brown,
and see if you can't worry her; you will
make me crazy, and Eiake your mothers hairs
gray before she is an old woman; the Lord
knows, it is just torment here all the time -
Annie walks out of the room and says. 81 lust
wish Twas dead; mamma never has a kind word
10 say to me and she is always so cruel to Inc. -
mamma, loan me your thimble.'' II shan t
do it; you lost my thimbe yesterday and
I'll wear you out it / ever catch you with nv
thimble again." Little Annie says: Il just
WISH MAMMA WAS DEAD,
now. That's all the harm l wish her, Next
day little Annie comes back and saws ::
please, mamma, loan me your scissors?'
81 shan't do it; you will put them in your
eyes and be here blind for me to wait on
you, and / dare you to let me see you
with those scissors" Now little Annie
is growing up all the time under
that baneful influence; she gets to be IS and
she has got the worst disposition and temper
of any girl you ever saw in your life and
there she is disgrace to her mother a bur-
den to herself and absolutely q disagreeable
companion in the community. And when
company visits her and the mother sees the
freaks of her daughter, the old woman will
pull the'corners of her mouth down and say
''The Lord knows what is the matter with
Annie. I have done the best for her /
could from her youth up" And she
has, too, and ruined her. If | was a
w1dower and she a widow and her daughter
marriageable. too, of the two, 1 would take
the old woman every time, because she would
be dead soonest and out of the way. Itwas
just about such wife that the Irishman had
and who said "FaIth, when die there will
be one fellow that will regret my DEATH" and
when asked who it was, replied: Faith, the
fellow that gets my WIFE" A mother like
that raises daughters, u chip Off the old
block, and those daughters go out to blight
lives and curse homes all over this land.
heard of young man who married into a
family of five or six. and the next week the
whole family moved in on him, aud he said
he didn't marry the whole family. l tell you
wise man will court the whole family.
want to court my mother-in-law and see
what sort of a woman raised my wife.
want to court the sisters around awhile and
see what sort Of sisters She grew up amongst.
1t depends upon the mother that raised your
wife and the sisters she associated with MS
she grew up to womanhood and grew up to
the point where she could become